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Greyhounds In the News '05
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CONDITIONING BEGINS FOR 2009
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off the beginning of Conditioning Camp for the 2009 year.
Players traveled from as far as Spartanburg, Greenwood,
On a windy Sunday afternoon the players of the Greenville
Greenville area in the first official preparation practice for
On a windy Sunday afternoon the players of the Greenville
the up coming football season. Slowly drifting into Sterling
the up coming football season. Slowly drifting into Sterling
Field cars started to fill the parking space just above the
goal post as players seemed joyful to be gathering. Players
gathered in small groups with each seeming to have a
different reason for being at the event, some players
chatted about the NFL playoffs, guys stood along the
sidelines stretching, and still others could be seen throwing
the football around. The coach laying out equipment and
Staff Writer 1/11/09
After stretching the Greyhounds bunched up and they broke the huddle with an emphatic G-R-E-Y-H-O-U-N-D-S.
Coach Beeks lined up opposite of the players and ran players through several drills each gradually building up
speed. Players chopping their feet, turning their hips, sprinting back and forth, and exercising exaggerated Giant
Steps all to the direction of the coach. Before each drill the coach gets out in front of the group and demonstrates
the proper way to perform each of the drills and the players would mimic what the coach had shown them. Some of
the players correctly following the lead of the coach others not as well. On lookers watch the athletes with a grading
eye. After wrapping up the drills the players are quickly roused over to the base of a steep hill and as soon as the
players form the lines, again they are instructed as to how to complete the drill. Simply as it is described the players
began to run up the hill and back down, up the hill and back down again. The coach gives them a water break.
The players return and gather behind the goal post to a layout of cones and the group is divided up into two and the
coach takes them through 40 more minutes of drills. After the drills coach Beeks calls the guys together and
dismisses the group and before the players disperse they are lead in the Lord's Prayer. Just as they came in drifting
in slowly and gathering in groups the team leaves the field; a few players hang around with individual questions for
the as he ends his day as he began.
whistle must have signified the beginning of the event as it warranted the attention of all that were in attendance
and they quickly descended on Coach Beeks as a target from which the whistle had come. The coach addressed
the players with the directions and with that the mass of individual groups had formed to become one big group.
The players formed a circle and began to stretch and exercise.